Psalms 55:9

2 Samuel 15:31; 2 Samuel 17:1-14; Acts 23:6-10; Genesis 11:7-9; Jeremiah 23:14; Jeremiah 6:7; John 7:45-53; Matthew 23:37; Matthew 23:38

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Destroy, O Lord - The word rendered “destroy,” properly means to “swallow up;” to “devour” with the idea of greediness. Isaiah 28:4 ; Exodus 7:...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Destroy, O Lord, [and] (g) divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. (g) As in the confusion of Babylon when the wicked...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LV. A Prayer for Deliverance from Treacherous Foes. Psalms 55:1-11 . The Psalmist tells God of his disquiet and terror. His desire to flee from J...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

LORD *. One of the 134 alterations of Jehovah to Adonai by the Sopherim. App-32. divide their tongues . cleave (as in Genesis 10:25 ; Genesis...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. Destroy, (303) O Lord; and divide their tongue Having now composed, as it were, his mind, he resumes the exercise of prayer. Had he i...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Destroy, O lord - Swallow them up - confound them. Div...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Destroy, O Lord, &c.— Confound, or overwhelm them, O Lord, and disunite their counsels. Chandler. Praying that God would destroy their cons...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Destroy, O Lord - literally, devour, namely, the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The author of this Ps. can hardly be David, for he speaks as a citizen of a distracted city rather than as its king, and the friend of whom he compla...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Divide their tongues ] with a confusion like that of Babel.
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Destroy. — Literally, swallow up. So the LXX., forcibly, “drown in the sea.” The object them must be supplied. This sudden change from plainti...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 55:1-23 THE situation of the psalmist has a general correspondence with that of David in the period of Absalom's rebellion, and the identif...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Fleeing the City's Ills Psalms 55:1-11 This psalm was suggested by Absalom's rebellion and Ahithophel's treachery. But it contains references w...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is the outcry of a man of faith in sore peril. The emotional nature is moved to its very center, and tides of deep feeling surge through his sou...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

If we look at David in these verses, we see how the distressed monarch pleaded with God to prosper the plan he had laid with his friend Hushai, to de...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Destroy, O Lord ,.... Or "swallow up" s, as Pharaoh and his host were swallowed up in the Red sea; or as Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, were swallowed u...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Destroy, O Lord, [and] divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city. Ver. 9. Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues ]...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Destroy, O Lord, and divide Destroy them by dividing their tongues Their speech, as thou didst at Babel, ( Genesis 11 .,) their votes, and opinio...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Prophetic Imprecations. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Divide their tongues, i.e. destroy them by dividing. Their tongues, i.e. their speech, as thou didst at Babel, Ge 11 ; their votes, and opinions...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

He Describes The City From Which He Has Escaped As, For Him At Least, A Place Of Violence, Strife And Wickedness ( Psalms 55:9-11 ). He describes...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the Chief Musician on Neginoth .” See introduction to Psalms 54 “ Maschil ,” an instruction. Hengstenberg: “Th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. It needed the chief musician to sing such a Psalm as this; it is so full of sorrow, and...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 55:6 . Oh that I had wings like a dove, to outfly the hawks which seek my life. The Latin reads, Who will give me wings like a dove? But th...
The Biblical Illustrator

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not Thyself from my supplication. The compassionable, the commendable, and the censurable in life I. The...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS psalm has been assigned to Jeremiah by Hitzig, and by others to an unknown writer of the seventh century b.c. But no solid g...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Complaint of False Friends. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be rendered with the accompaniment of stringed instruments in public worship,...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues, swallowing them up and confounding their speech and therefore also their counsels; for I have seen violen...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Destroy — Destroy them by dividing. Tongues — Their speech, as thou didst at Babel, Genesis 11:9 , their votes, and opinions, and counsels. Which...

⁹ Destroy, O Lord, and divide their tongues: for I have seen violence and strife in the city.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 55:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 55:9